106 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



base, outer margin crenulate. Antennae with tlie club rather robust, with a very 

 minute blunt crook, palj^i sub-erect, third joint blunt, prominent, standing out well 

 beyond the head, second joint laxly scaled, hind tibite with two pairs of spurs, the 

 upper pair very minute. 



Type, Papilio lavaterfe, Esper, from Europe. 



As pointed out by Watson, this genus can be divided into two groups, in one of 

 which the male has a tuft of hairs on the underside of the forewing, not present in 

 the other. 



SECTION I. 

 Without the tuft of hairs on the underside of forewing, in the male. 



CARCHARODUS ALCE^. 



Plate 782, figs, i', <^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 



Papilio alcese, Esper, Schmett. i. (2), pi. 51, fig. 3 (1780). 



Pi/rgus ah-ese, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 94. 



Carcliarodus alcese, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 67. Elwes and Edwards (part), Trans. Zool. 



Soc. 1897, p. 152. Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. 1903, p. 677. 

 Papilio malvarum, Hofimansegg, 111. Mag. iii. p. 198 (1804). Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. i. 2, 



p. 195 (1808). 

 Hesperia malvarum, Meigen, Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 55, pi. 54, fig. 1 (1829). 

 Papilio malvse, Hufnagel (nee Linnfeus), Berl. Mag. ii. p. 66 (1766). Schiff. Wien Verz. p. 159 



(1776). 

 Hesperia malvse, Latreille (nee LinnKus), Enc. Meth. ix. p. 779 (1823). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside browm with a slight pinkish tint. Foreiv'mg with an 

 ante-medial blackish baud from the cell to the sub-median vein, filling the outer third 

 of the cell, and divided by the median vein, a white lunule at the end of the cell, 

 a discal series of quadrate blackish-brown marks in the interspaces, a small white 

 spot near the base of the second median interspace, another before the middle of 

 the first median interspace, three sub-apical white dots, all within the discal series, a 

 marginal series of square blackish-brown marks in the interspaces. Hindicing with a 

 quadrate blackish- brown spot at the eml of the cell, and two below it, all three out- 

 wardly edged with white spots, a discal and a marginal series of square blackish-brown 

 marks in the interspaces. Cilia of both wings checkered brown and white. 



Female larger than the male. Upperside with the ground colour paler, markings 

 similar. Underside pale greyish markings as above, but indistinct. Forewing with the 

 brown wedge at the end of the cell split by a white line ; a sub-marginal series of 

 white dots. Ilindwing whitish, abdominal fold white, two sub-basal white spots, a 

 discal and a sub-marginal series of white spots. Antennae brown, white beneath, the 



